Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of 16-Layer 2195 Al-Li Alloy Components Manufactured by Additive Friction Stir Deposition
Qinglin Liu, Ruilin Lai, Hui Wang, Yidi Li, Yunping Li, Lihua Zhan · 2024
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Description
Qinglin Liu and five co-authors present a 2024 materials study on building aluminum-lithium parts layer by layer with a friction-based printing method. The process reheats earlier layers with each new pass, so the microstructure and strength vary through the part. The team examined a sixteen-layer component of a high-strength aerospace alloy, comparing its last, middle, and first layers.
Heat cycling reshaped the strengthening particles differently by depth. The top layers kept the most of the key phase and measured hardest and strongest, with the best stretch before breaking. Strength and hardness declined steadily toward the bottom. The authors explain the gradient through the precipitate patterns each layer's heat history produced. The work guides how such printed parts should be designed and where their weak zones lie.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qinglin Liu, Ruilin Lai, Hui Wang, Yidi Li, Yunping Li, Lihua Zhan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |